after credits: my bafta experience, the white lotus s3, zero day & other hotties
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Hello my wonderful readers, and welcome to February’s After Credits. To my regulars - you probably know how this works.
To those of you who don’t, and to those who recently subscribed (hi!), most of my film writing is free for everyone. But once a month, I invite paid subscribers into this more intimate space where I share a personally curated film & tv watchlist and stories from my life as a writer.
In my recent Reader Survey, I heard a lot of you would love to read more personal anecdotes so….it’s happening.
Today I will be taking you behind the scenes of my first time covering the BAFTAs (spoiler: there was a lot of getting lost in wrong rooms).
Also, this edition is television-packed: From my first impressions of The White Lotus Season 3’s Thai meditation mayhem, to Robert De Niro and Angela Bassett plotting through cyber-crisis in Netflix's Zero Day, to Sterling K. Brown elevating the delightfully uneven Paradise beyond its premise.
Pour yourself something strong, TFSers – we're diving deep...
My first time covering the BAFTAs felt like that scene in Notting Hill where Hugh Grant sneaks into the press junket, except instead of Julia Roberts, I got a soundless livestream and the world's most exclusive game of musical chairs.
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